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Originally posted Tue Apr 20 2010, 03:10PM

Average Male Working hours

The average hours that a Full time male in Australia works is shown by the following percentages against hours groups.

February 2010

• 24.6% work between 35 and 39 hours per week
• 32.2% work between 40 and 44 hours per week
• 14.3% work between 45 and 49 hours per week
• 16.2% work between 50 and 59 hours per week
• 12.6% work 60 or more hours per week

The percentage is based against the total of all full time males working 35+ hours per week.

I calculated that the overall average is 44.7 hours per week.

Source: 6291.0.55.003 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, Feb 2010
Table 13. Employed persons and Actual hours worked by Status in employment and Sex

A further breakdown of figures reveals:

Average weekly actual hours worked

• Full Time ; Employee ; Persons ; 43.2 hours per week
• All ; Employee ; Persons ; 36.3 hours per week
• All ; Employee ; Male ; 40.6 hours per week
• All ; Employee ; Female ; 31.3 hours per week

UK figures can be seen at: http://news.bbc.co.uk who quote:
UK workers in full-time jobs put in an average of 41.4 hours every week

http://www.britzinoz.com/average-working-week-australia-and-uk

Originally posted Wed Apr 21 2010, 05:57PM

Annual Leave:
Employers must generally give all permanent full-time employees at least:

4 weeks paid annual leave (5 weeks for shift workers)
10 days paid personal/carer's leave per year
2 days unpaid carer's leave (when needed)
2 days paid compassionate leave (when needed)
12 months unpaid parental leave.

This is effective from 1st January 2010.

Note: Annual leave and paid personal/carer's leave accumulates over time.

http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Pay-leave-and-conditions/Leave-and-public-holidays/Pages/default.aspx

Public Holidays:
Employees who would usually work on a public holiday are entitled to a day off with pay (subject to reasonable requests to work).

Public holiday pay for employees who work on a public holiday depends on whether they're covered by an award or agreement that provides for penalty rates to be paid for work on public holidays.

http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Pay-leave-and-conditions/Leave-and-public-holidays/Pages/Public-holidays.aspx#role

The Retail Award for example states:
Work on a public holiday must be compensated by either:
(i) payment at the rate of an additional 150%;
(ii) an equivalent day or equivalent time off instead without loss of pay; or
(iii) an additional day or equivalent time as annual leave.

https://extranet.deewr.gov.au